A Chinese national on Aug. 31 was sentenced in a Manhattan federal court to three years in jail in connection with a scheme to conduct unauthorized exports to China of high-grade carbon fiber, primarily used in aerospace and military applications, the Justice Department announced. The scheme by Fuyi Sun to export the fiber without a license violated the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, DOJ said. U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein imposed the sentence Aug. 31 after Sun pleaded guilty on April 21. Since about 2011, Sun attempted to acquire “extremely high-grade carbon fiber,” contacting what he believed was a distributor of the commodity but which was actually an “undercover entity” created by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Homeland Security Investigations, DOJ said. Sun “suggested” the Chinese military was the ultimate end-user for the carbon fiber he sought to acquire, DOJ said, and on April 12, 2016, bought two cases of M60 from the undercover entity for $25,000. He was arrested the next day.
The majority of emergency alert system Law Enforcement Warnings were about notification of road closures and non-emergency traffic disruptions, making it unacceptable to use in lieu of creating a new Blue Alert code to warn about dangers to police officers, said the DOJ Office of Community Oriented Policing Services in reply comments in FCC docket 15-94. “There is often a perceived lack of urgency associated with the LEW event code,” the COPS Office said. “A dedicated EAS event code for Blue Alerts would streamline Blue Alert plans across the nation and will help to integrate existing plans into a coordinated national framework, the COPS Office said. "Such a code would also serve as the central and organizing element for Blue Alert plans coast-to-coast and greatly facilitate the work of the National Blue Alert Network.”
Harvey has generated more than 300 emergency alert system messages and wireless emergency alerts since Thursday, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Texas broadcasters -- generally sparing in putting out EAS alerts -- likely won't change that policy in the hurricane's aftermath. Harvey came ashore as a hurricane (see 1708280049) and later was downgraded to a tropical storm.
No automaker provided clearly written privacy notices about data collected, used and shared through connected vehicles, said a GAO report dated July 28 and released Monday. GAO reviewed consumer privacy issues of more than a dozen connected passenger vehicles manufactured by Ford, General Motors, Honda, Tesla, Toyota and others, and interviewed auto industry groups and CTA and CTIA. An industry spokesman said automakers take privacy seriously. The report also said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) needs to provide more clarity on data privacy.
No automaker provided clearly written privacy notices about data collected, used and shared through connected vehicles, said a GAO report dated July 28 and released Monday. GAO reviewed consumer privacy issues of more than a dozen connected passenger vehicles manufactured by Ford, General Motors, Honda, Tesla, Toyota and others, and interviewed auto industry groups and CTA and CTIA. An industry spokesman said automakers take privacy seriously. The report also said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) needs to provide more clarity on data privacy.
No automaker provided clearly written privacy notices about data collected, used and shared through connected vehicles, said a GAO report dated July 28 and released Monday. GAO reviewed consumer privacy issues of more than a dozen connected passenger vehicles manufactured by Ford, General Motors, Honda, Tesla, Toyota and others, and interviewed auto industry groups and CTA and CTIA. An industry spokesman said automakers take privacy seriously. The report also said the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) needs to provide more clarity on data privacy.
The Sept. 27 nationwide test of the emergency alert system (see 1612280045) is expected by FCC and state EAS officials and industry EAS experts to yield results similar to last year’s. The exercise will be done using very similar parameters to 2016, but unlike that test won’t debut new test codes or procedures, FCC and EAS industry officials told us.
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Multiple recommendations submitted by the Commercial Customs Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) for Section 321 entries proved to be contentious, eliciting disagreement among members during the Aug. 23 COAC meeting in San Diego. The presentation of the recommendations at the meeting included the unusual step of votes and discussions on each individual recommendation. While some of the recommendations faced opposition, all were ultimately approved by the COAC. "There's a lot of uncertainty in this area because it's a new and different model that was not necessarily envisioned or anticipated by the market, by those that are participating in it or by our government partners," said Cindy Allen, the co-chair of the Trade Modernization Subcommittee.
Startup Ninety7 has jumped on the voice-control opportunity, looking to “set free” Alexa and, next month, Google Assistant, with powered accessories, CEO Kevin Brennan told us on a press tour in New York. Brennan called the voice-assist category "a great space" that's "changing a lot of people's lives."